Freetail Brewing partners with Silver Eagle

Construction is currently underway on Freetail’s second location, a 30,000-square-foot brewery that will have the initial capacity to brew 6,000 barrels of beer annually. The brewery will have the space to scale up production to about 60,000 barrels annually.

Freetail’s craft beers are expected to hit the market in 22-ounce bombers by mid-summer in the San Antonio area and surrounding counties. Freetail looks to sell beer in cans by the fall.

While Freetail intially will focus selling its beers locally, Scott Metzger, the brewery’s founder and CEO, said in a news release that the partnership with Silver Eagle gives the company “the potential to expand to the Houston market when the time is right.”

And since we’re on the topic of craft beer, the Brewer’s Association recently released updated data about the industry. Here are a couple of highlights: Last year, the craft beer industry raked in $14.3 billion, a 20 percent jump from the previous year. Plus, the overall number of domestic breweries grew 15 percent to 2,822.